Isaiah Morris is a visual artist and (almost) theologian residing in Oxford, U.K.
The spiritual undercurrents of perception, the history of religious and artistic renewals, and the imagination’s formation occupies much of his thought. He pursues this in three modalities: Image, Word, and People. (And when not, he’s probably making Creme Brûlée.)
Currently, Isaiah is training for the Anglican Priesthood at Wycliffe Hall and pursuing a DPhil (PhD) in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Oxford. His research explores the history of the Charismatic Renewal within the Catholic tradition of the Church of England. He holds a Master’s in Theology and the Arts from King’s College, London (awarded the Relton Prize in Christian Doctrine).
He is an Emering Leader with the Centre for Cultural Witness and a Bill Snelson Young Ecumenist. His writing has appeared in Inkwell (Christianity Today), Seen&Unseen, Art+Christianity, and the Australasian Pentecostal Studies Journal. Lately, he’s been writing a book on a theology of LED screens.
Isaiah has exhibited and performed live visuals and video art worldwide—Australia, North America, Japan, Korea, and the United Kingdom—often in public and non-traditional spaces. He is concerned with how different environments affect the viewer's perception of what is real and what is not, blurring the lines between the tangible and the ethereal.
His collaborators include: New Balance, Red Bull AU, Melbourne Music Week, Piknic Electronica, Focus Festival (UK), Renaissance Conference (UK), Reality Church San Francisco, and Sunday Screens. Isaiah’s live visuals have cast silhouettes on the likes of Peggy Gou, Carl Cox, Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes, Kate Ceberano, Chase and Status, Masego, Kaiit, Ben Klock, Tobiahs, and Rival Consoles.
Curatorially, in 2019, Isaiah launched New Kids, hosting over 40 music events to platform emerging artists and provide industry support. Similarly, he founded the No Vacancy Window to create exhibiting opportunities for video and motion-based artists.
Isaiah speaks regularly on the intersection between art, faith, and culture. You can read his inconsistent meanderings at (re)figure.
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The spiritual undercurrents of perception, the history of religious and artistic renewals, and the imagination’s formation occupies much of his thought. He pursues this in three modalities: Image, Word, and People. (And when not, he’s probably making Creme Brûlée.)
Currently, Isaiah is training for the Anglican Priesthood at Wycliffe Hall and pursuing a DPhil (PhD) in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Oxford. His research explores the history of the Charismatic Renewal within the Catholic tradition of the Church of England. He holds a Master’s in Theology and the Arts from King’s College, London (awarded the Relton Prize in Christian Doctrine).
He is an Emering Leader with the Centre for Cultural Witness and a Bill Snelson Young Ecumenist. His writing has appeared in Inkwell (Christianity Today), Seen&Unseen, Art+Christianity, and the Australasian Pentecostal Studies Journal. Lately, he’s been writing a book on a theology of LED screens.
Isaiah has exhibited and performed live visuals and video art worldwide—Australia, North America, Japan, Korea, and the United Kingdom—often in public and non-traditional spaces. He is concerned with how different environments affect the viewer's perception of what is real and what is not, blurring the lines between the tangible and the ethereal.
His collaborators include: New Balance, Red Bull AU, Melbourne Music Week, Piknic Electronica, Focus Festival (UK), Renaissance Conference (UK), Reality Church San Francisco, and Sunday Screens. Isaiah’s live visuals have cast silhouettes on the likes of Peggy Gou, Carl Cox, Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes, Kate Ceberano, Chase and Status, Masego, Kaiit, Ben Klock, Tobiahs, and Rival Consoles.
Curatorially, in 2019, Isaiah launched New Kids, hosting over 40 music events to platform emerging artists and provide industry support. Similarly, he founded the No Vacancy Window to create exhibiting opportunities for video and motion-based artists.
Isaiah speaks regularly on the intersection between art, faith, and culture. You can read his inconsistent meanderings at (re)figure.
CV